SERVICE ABOVE SELF


JULY 2017: ISSUE 100


L to R: Ewen Allan, David Scott and Iain MacKinnon.


David Scott gave a fascinating talk on the Glensanda granite quarry beside Loch Linnhe to Kilrymont St Andrews Rotarians. David, a retired mechanical engineer wi th Aggregate Indust r ies, was managing director from 2006 until 2009 at Glensanda, the largest granite quarry in Europe. He gave an account of the history of Glensanda which was a former shooting estate. John Yeoman, a quarry owner from Somerset, was a keen sailor and, with his wife Angela, sailed on the west coast of Scotland. He was also a visionary and saw the potential of the granite mountain beside the loch but was also aware of the environmental considerations in an area of outstanding natural beauty. In 1982 he purchased the Glensanda estate and four years later the first quarried granite was exported to Houston, Texas. Other aggregate markets opened up in


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London and Europe and Glensanda has provided crushed granite to projects including the Channel Tunnel, the Elbe road tunnel in Hamburg and Nord Stream gas pipeline. John Yeoman died in 1987 but his wife successfully ran the company until 2006 when it was acquired by Aggregate Industries, a subsidiary of Swiss company Holcim. David headed a team of seven who changed the way the super quarry operated. David outlined the blasting operations of Glensanda explaining how the material


was then crushed and transported on conveyor belts in tunnels up to 1.8km long.


£100 will buy approximately 140 doses of wild polio vaccine.


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